Where: Nepal (29.5° N, 83.1° E: paleocoordinates 52.6° S, 61.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nangung Formation (Namlang Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Nangung Formation is correlated with the Kalabagh Member of the Salt Range based on brachiopods, which is Wuchiapingian in age. 30 m thick.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk,
• Some collections were of individual specimens, others as large as possible under the circumstances, with a few localities represented by rock weighing more than 50 kg. Most collections were made from just over 50 measured sections, and are under good stratigraphic control.
Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1978. Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160(1-6):1-175 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43123: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
? Strophalosia sp. King 1844 | |
Lamnimargus himalayensis Diener 1899 | |
"Marginifera typica" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica
"Marginifera typica" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica Waagen 1884 | |
"Costiferina alatus" = Costiferina indica, "Dictyoclostidae "indet. A"" = Dictyoclostinae
"Costiferina alatus" = Costiferina indica Waagen 1884
"Dictyoclostidae "indet. A"" = Dictyoclostinae Stehli 1954 | |
? Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960 | |
Orthotetes bisulcatus Waterhouse 1966 | |
Chonetidae indet. Bronn 1862 | |
Chonetinella sp. Ramsbottom 1952 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferidina indet. Waagen 1883 | |
"Neospirifer cf. ambiensis" = Betaneospirifer ambiensis
"Neospirifer cf. ambiensis" = Betaneospirifer ambiensis Waagen 1883 | |
Spiriferella rajah Salter 1865 | |
Bivalvia | |
Etheripecten sp. Waterhouse 1963 scallop |